> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Malcolm Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "David Carter-Hitchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Drew > Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:44 PM > > On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:34, David Carter-Hitchin wrote: > > Hi Drew, > [snip] > > You may find the following note from man find helpful: > > > > # All primaries which take a numeric argument allow the number to be pre- > > # ceded by a plus sign (``+'') or a minus sign (``-''). A preceding plus > > # sign means ``more than n'', a preceding minus sign means ``less than n'' > > # and neither means ``exactly n''. > > > > So that is why I put a "+" in from of 1024 - to find files over 1024 bytes > > (c). > > > > So in your example below: > > > find /usr \( -mtime 6 -ls -size 100 \) -o \( -ctime 6 -ls -size 100 > > > \) -print > > > > You are trying to find files that are exactly 100 512k blocks in > > size. Admittedly the files you found were not of this size > > At each stage find applies the test argument and passes on files that > remain to the next argument for manipulation. This in the first 'or' branch > everthing that satisfies -mtime 6 is passed on to -ls and thus displayed > before it is filtered by the -size 100 argument. To do what Drew wanted the > -size +100 should be applied *before* the -ls.
Thank you. Now I understand. > (It is difficult to see why Drew would want to use both -ls and -print) Because I don't know what I'm doing. :) Thanks for pointing out that this is redundant. Cheers, Drew _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
